To help
βοηθέωStrong’s G0997boētheō
Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament
In short
Boētheō is the Greek word usually translated “do help”, “helped” and “help”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.
“Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.”
Meaning
Usually translated “do help”, “helped” and “help”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- do help 5
- i helped 1
- to help 1
- gave help 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Mark 2
- Acts 2
- Matthew 1
- 2 Corinthians 1
- Hebrews 1
- Revelation 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 9:22And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
- Mark 9:24And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
- Acts 16:9And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
- Acts 21:28Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
- 2 Corinthians 6:2(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
- Hebrews 2:18For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Greek dictionary
βοηθέω boētheō · to help
βοηθέω, -ῶ (βοή + θέω, to run), [in LXX chiefly for עזר ;] to come to aid, to help, succour: absol., Act.21:28; with dative, Mat.15:25, Mrk.9:22, 24 Act.16:9, 2Co.6:2" (LXX), Heb.2:18, Rev.12:16.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “help” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HELP, verb transitive
A regular verb; the old past tense and participle holp and holpen being obsolete.
- To aid; to assist; to lend strength or means towards effecting a purpose; as, to help a man in his work; to help another in raising a building; to help one to pay his debts; to help the memory or the understanding.
- To assist; to succor; to lend means of deliverance; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
- To relieve; to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease.
- To remedy; to change for the better.
All definitions and other forms of “help”
- To prevent; to hinder.
- To forbear; to avoid.
HELP, verb intransitive
To lend aid; to contribute strength or means.
HELP, noun
Aid; assistance; strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress.
- “Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man” Psalms 60:11
- That which gives assistance; he or that which contributes to advance a purpose.“God is a very present help in time of trouble” Psalms 46:1
- Remedy; relief.
- A hired man or woman; a servant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.